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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf maliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish [a] anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884–1920 is a 2004 book about the early career of Polish-British anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, written by Michael W. Young and published by Yale University Press.
More widely published contemporaneous works by Malinowski, The Family Among the Australian Aborigines (1913) and Wierzenia pierwotne i formy ustroju spolecznego [Primitive Beliefs and Forms of the Social System] (1915) are not included in this volume. Many of the included works listed above were previously only available in Polish or German ...
In the final analysis, the major credit for discovering the technique of intensive personal fieldwork among a single people must go to Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942). His researches among the Trobriand Islanders during the years 1916-18 yielded a series of epochal volumes which revolutionized the content and practice of anthropology.
A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays is a 1944 anthropological book by the Polish scholar Bronisław Malinowski. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] It was ...
Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays is a 1948 anthropological book by the Polish scholar Bronisław Malinowski, collecting a number of his essays published in the earlier years. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The book discussed sexuality in matrilineal society, debunking some myths about sexual promiscuity of primitive people. It has also contributed to scientific study of sex, previously restricted due to Euro-American prudery and views on morality; something that has been attributed to Malinowski's Slavic Catholic cultural background which made him less concerned with "Anglo-Saxon Puritanism".
History and significance [ edit ] When the diaries were published in 1967, Clifford Geertz called them "gross" and "tiresome", and wrote that they portrayed Malinowski as "a crabbed, self-preoccupied, hypochondriacal narcissist, whose fellow-feeling for the people he lived with was limited in the extreme."